Bug#838807: false positive source-is-missing can't be overridden

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>]

On 25/09/16 10:03, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 09:46:30 +0200 Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> wrote:
>> Package: lintian
>> Version: 2.5.46~bpo8+1
>> X-Debbugs-Cc: ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/homer-api_5.0.6+dfsg2-2.html#source-lintian
>>
>> E: homer-api source: source-is-missing apidoc/html/api_data.js line
>> length is 2056 characters (>512)
>>
>>
> 
> Try with:
> 
>   source-is-missing apidoc/html/api_data.js *
> 
> (The "help text" must also be covered by the override).


OK, simply adding the '*' made the override work


> 
> There is also the [Das Lintian-overrider 2000], which should generate
> correct lintian-overrides for all cases.
>


Thanks for pointing this out

I had simply been referring to this page:

https://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-2.4.html

It wasn't obvious to me about the help text/wildcard, I don't think I
saw this situation before, maybe it would be good to add this to the
examples in the manual.

Regards,

Daniel